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FINANCE

Crunch meeting to settle equal pay dispute

By William Eichler | 01 April 2016

A council that has 2,000 equal pay claims outstanding will meet trade union representatives next ...

HEALTH

Whitehall social care chief gets key Greater Manchester role

By Jamie Hailstone | 01 April 2016

The Government’s social care chief has been appointed to head up Greater Manchester’s new devolve...

PAY

First city director hired on £35k less than chief executive

By Dan Peters | 01 April 2016

Stoke-on-Trent has appointed David Sidaway as its first ever city director.

Authorities to share support services

By Mark Whitehead | 01 April 2016

Councils in Lincolnshire and Sussex are the latest to announce moves to share support services.

FINANCE

Councils calculate cost of floods at £250m

By Mark Whitehead | 01 April 2016

The cost of damage caused by floods over the winter has reached nearly £250m and is still rising,...

BUSINESS

Councils to make legal team mergers

By Jamie Hailstone | 01 April 2016

Kent CC has agreed to create a company for its legal services department as four other councils a...

BUSINESS

Brexit is 'bad news for building'

By Jamie Hailstone | 01 April 2016

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has warned that Brexit would be catastrophic to the UK’s housing m...

FINANCE

Cuts force Highland Council to 'completely redesign priorities'

By Thomas Bridge | 01 April 2016

Highland Council will begin a ‘complete redesign’ imminently after ‘significant’ cuts to staff nu...

MANAGEMENT

White Van Man on . . . combined authorities

01 April 2016

I thought they were used by farmers but apparently these ones aren’t called combine harvesters bu...

BUSINESS

Wigan – the next Power

01 April 2016

Last week it was revealed that a satellite super computer called Hyperbrain has been orbiting aro...